内容简介
This2010textpursuesAdamSmith'sviewsonmoraljudgement,humanitariancare,commerce,justiceandinternationallawbothinhistoricalcontextandthroughatwenty-first-centurycosmopolitanlens,makingthisamajorcontributionnotonlytoSmithstudiesbutalsotothehistoryofcosmopolitanthoughtandtocontemporarycosmopolitandiscourseitself.Forman-Barzilaibreaksground,demonstratingthespatialtextureofSmith'smoralpsychologyandthewayshebelievedthatphysical,affectiveandculturaldistanceconstraintheidentities,connectionsandethicalobligationsofmoderncommercialpeople.Forman-Barzilaiemphasizeshisresistancetothesortofrelativism,moralinsularityandculturalchauvinismthattoooftenaccompanylocalistcritiquesofcosmopolitanthoughttoday.Thisisafascinating,revisioniststudythatintegratestheperspectivesofintellectualhistory,moralphilosophy,politicaltheory,culturaltheory,internationalrelationstheoryandpoliticaleconomy,andwillappealacrossthehumanitiesandsocialsciences.